{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Grace and Grit: Moving Forward with Angie","title":"The Ones Who Held Me Together","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2292,"description":"EPISODE SUMMARYFor the past two episodes, you have heard the caregiving season through Angie’s eyes. Today, you get to hear it through someone else who was watching, loving, and quietly holding her up through all of it.Angie’s sister Kristi joins her for an honest, unscripted conversation about what it looks like to support someone you love through the hardest season of their life — from the outside looking in.This episode is different. It is not a solo story. It is a kitchen table conversation between two sisters who have never fully sat down and talked about this before. And the things Kristi shares — what she saw, what she worried about, what she carried quietly on her own side — may just be the thing that helps you feel less alone in whatever role you are playing in someone else’s hard season.Whether you are the one going through it, or the one standing beside someone who is — this episode is for you.MEET KRISTIKristi is Angie’s sister, based in Rhome, Texas, and one of the people who held Angie together during the caregiving season with Ray — even when Angie didn’t fully realize it at the time. In this episode, Kristi shares her own perspective on Ray, on watching her sister carry an almost impossible season, and on what supporting a caregiver really looks like from the inside.IN THIS EPISODE•  Who Ray was through Kristi’s eyes — a perspective on the man Angie loved, told by someone else who loved him too•  What it was like for Kristi to watch Angie walk through the caregiving season from the outside•  What Kristi worried about most — and whether Angie knew how she really looked during that time•  The moments Kristi could see Angie was not okay, even when Angie believed she was holding it together•  What Kristi was quietly carrying on her own side that Angie could not see from inside the storm•  How Kristi knew when to step in — and when to simply be present•  Things Kristi wanted to say back then but didn’t — and what she would say now•  What that season...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qDstzI54LsKcfJDwQMt6anIGyC_GlPzS-XvjM9w1EWI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MWQw/ZDZkYjYxYmJkNWUz/NzhlMjUxNWEwZmVk/MWVmOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}